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Graduation Honors

A student must earn a minimum of 60 credit hours of graded credit at JU to be eligible for honors designation at commencement. A student who earns a 3.5 cumulative GPA is graduated Cum Laude (with honor); a 3.7 CGPA, Magna Cum Laude (with high honor); and a 3.9 CGPA, Summa Cum Laude (with highest honor).

Students, who complete a second degree at Jacksonville University, after having completed their first degree at JU, shall be treated, for the purpose of calculating honors, as if they had transferred to JU. That is, they must complete a minimum of 60 graded credit hours toward the second degree to be considered for graduation honors.